Hopefully you have at least skimmed through NavFx Part 1 - Quick Reference and have a basic idea of what NavFx brings to your Silverlight applications.  In this an subsequent articles I am going to walk you through how I use NavFx to build the next version of http://www.vrcyclist.com.  I am not going to go into every gory detail, I will be focussing on the NavFx aspects of the application, but feel free to comment or ask questions about any aspect, I will do my best to answer them.  Do bear in mind though I am not re-writing this application in...

In this first article on NavFx I am going a provide a quick reference for it's features by way of some basic documentation. Since posting the first version of this article I have started a project on CodePlex for NavFx and made the code available there, along with simple demo projects in C# and VB.NET.  I have also created VSI installers for templates that you can use to get up and running with NavFx very quickly.  The project is located at http://www.codeplex.com/NavFx. Package Contents NavFx includes four interfaces, five classes and seven custom exceptions, which are listed below and will be explained further in...

Having a developer mindset instead of a more creative designer mindset I never really got in to Silverlight 1.*, I learned what I needed to know but never used it.  Why?  Basically because I work on web applications and not web sites and the lack of native support for application features such as form controls led me to see Silverlight 1.* as limited to funky presentation media based stuff.  I am sure this view will be challenged and I will generate some comment but it is just the way I think of things. Silverlight 2.* has changed things for me as it introduces native controls and support for Silverlight Applications.  Now...